Sentences with phrase «autonomous vehicle systems»

«We have to be thoughtful and intentional about how we develop autonomous vehicle systems,» he said.

Self - Driving Research: Toyota partners with startup company to improve autonomous vehicle systems

Not exact matches

Because all of Tesla's cars are equipped with the software and hardware necessary to collect data that can be used to improve its ML system, the electric - car company could have a huge edge against other automakers and tech companies working on autonomous vehicles.

It is not yet clear whether Uber's system was at fault or not in the latest crash, but Uber has now halted all testing of its autonomous vehicles, with no clear timeline for reactivation.

The sensors are also a key part of the sensing system on autonomous vehicles.

They add that Project Titan has been «re-focused on developing an autonomous driving system that gives Apple flexibility to either partner with existing carmakers, or return to designing its own vehicle in the future» and that «executives have given the car team a deadline of late next year to prove the feasibility of the self - driving system and decide on a final direction.»

Apple (aapl) said California should revise how companies report self - driving system «disengagements» and said the state should change a proposal «that may restrict both the design and equipment that can be used in test vehicles to further develop autonomous technologies.»

As a result, Krafcik says Waymo's test drivers now take control of the vehicle and disengage the autonomous - drive system approximately once every five thousand miles driven.

• AEye, a Pleasanton, Calif. - based autonomous vehicle vision system manufacturer, raised $ 16 million in Series A funding.

* BlackBerry rose 5.4 percent to C$ 15.83, hitting its highest levels since 2013, after saying that it will provide the foundational operating system for search engine company Baidu's autonomous vehicle platform, the latest in a string of recent automotive design wins.

After testing their all - electric and autonomous Chevy Bolt EV prototypes in California, Michigan, and Arizona, GM's Cruise Automation vehicles are going to New York City to further test their system in a difficult traffic environment.

It would mean that between the end of the year and around 2019, Tesla could have a level 4 autonomous system enabled in second generation cars — meaning the vehicles can drive themselves without a driver as backup, but not in all conditions or environment.

Here is their explanation of one of the most important self - driving car patents, called «Vision system for an autonomous vehicle.»

The importance of understanding how drivers interact with autonomous or semiautonomous vehicles was underscored year ago when a Tesla owner was killed while driving his 2015 Model S in Florida with the car's Autopilot system engaged.

But by 2015, the Google car project had come a long way: Google's vehicles had logged more than one million autonomous miles; car companies including Toyota Motor Corp. and Tesla Inc. announced their own plans to develop autonomous systems; and analysts predicted the technology would transform the auto industry.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has recently unveiled that his company aims to bring out an urban bus, a new pick - up truck and a car - sharing system based on autonomous vehicles.

In a federal court filing, Waymo, Google's autonomous vehicle unit, said it was scaling back some of its claims over Uber violating its patents on LiDAR, a remote - sensing system powering Waymo's driverless car technology.

Tesla didn't say whether the vehicle's Autopilot system was engaged but pre-emptively defended the driver - assist feature, which it's developing as a precursor to autonomous driving.

The German company has already inked alliances with Cisco, IBM, and others to work on V2X communication systems, which many experts view as key in the development of autonomous vehicles.

General Motors believes that autonomous vehicles may be the next big thing to happen to ride - hailing services, and is putting up major bucks behind one of the companies to help develop a system.

So far, autonomous systems in the U.S. have been connected with three deaths — two related to Tesla vehicles and a third that occurred in March when a pedestrian was struck by a car being tested by Uber.

Let's be clear about this: Musk has no statistical grounds to state categorically that autonomous systems are safer than human - driven vehicles.

Increasing use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Once regulatory hurdles for the use of autonomous air vehicles are cleared, UAS developments could give logistics companies the opportunity to move freight away from central hubs to dispersed regional airfields and change how we transport goods by air.

The firm has said it had no plans to make its own driverless cars, but instead will make control systems for so - called autonomous vehicles.

Chris Grayling also announced the creation of a new compulsory insurance framework covering motorists who have handed control of their vehicle to an autonomous driving system.

16 Many high - end vehicles are already partly autonomous, with brakes that activate if sensors indicate an impending crash, steering that prevents drifting, sonar systems that navigate into parking spaces, and cruise control that prevents following the next car too closely.

A system that allows autonomous vehicles to gain a 3D view of an area could reduce the chance of a collision with an unseen obstacle or person by 14 times

Lead researcher and Lecturer in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering at the University of Bath, Dr Biagio Forte, said: «With increasing dependency upon GNSS with the planned introduction of 5G networks and autonomous vehicles which rely heavily on GNSS, the need for accurate and reliable satellite navigation systems everywhere in the world has never been more critical.

Whilst outages in mobile phones may not be life threatening, unreliability in satellite navigations systems in autonomous vehicles or drones delivering payloads could result in serious harm to both humans and the environment.

They are focused on applications for autonomous vehicles, some of which already have similar laser - based systems for detecting objects around the car, but other uses could include seeing through foliage from aerial vehicles or giving rescue teams the ability to find people blocked from view by walls and rubble.

The sampling system combines three cutting edge technologies — an adapted Suspended Particulate Rosette (SUPR) multi-sampler, a REMUS autonomous underwater vehicle equipped with sensors, and identification of organisms by DNA barcode analysis.

The hope is to create a prototypical neural net that will help build transparency into autonomous systems like drones or unmanned vehicles.

«By adding more and more sensors, researchers are throwing «everything but the kitchen sink» to prepare autonomous vehicle navigation systems for the inevitable scenario that GPS signals become unavailable.

Current trends in autonomous vehicle navigation systems therefore rely not only on GPS / INS, but a suite of other sensor - based technologies such as cameras, lasers, and sonar.

The technology could be used to develop navigation systems that meet the stringent requirements of fully autonomous vehicles, such as driverless cars and unmanned drones.

We're beginning to see that with [unmanned aerial vehicles]: «It's an autonomous system, and it behaved unpredictably because the environment was unpredictable.»

Most programmable devices are still at risk, including those embedded in autonomous vehicles, critical infrastructure, wearable computing devices, and in the Internet of Things, a term that refers to online control devices ranging from smart thermostats to industrial systems.

The optimization will be used in the development of autonomous vehicles, improved aviation and naval navigation systems, and precision technologies.

The Vehicle Research Section at NRL conducts research to develop technologies for autonomous, affordably expendable, unmanned systems that carry a wide variety of payloads for numerous mission scenarios.

Coastal physical oceanography, subtidal circulation, ocean observing systems, real - time surface buoy design, towable buoy designs, autonomous vehicles, surface current measurements with HF RADAR, Doppler technology, oceanographic applications of artificial neural networks.

The impact of emerging technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, bio-technology, autonomous vehicles and 3 - D printing will be unprecedented: disrupting and transforming all areas of society as well as entire systems of production, management, and governance.

Drivers must acknowledge that the Autopilot feature does not make the vehicle fully autonomous in order to turn on the system.

Volvo remains the only automaker to claim responsibility for any of its vehicles involved in an accident while operated by its autonomous systems, but the Drive Me test program is being conducted with 100 Volvo XC90s on just 50 kilometers (31 miles) of limited - access highway in Gothenburg, Sweden, which, I am told, doesn't get much snow.

While GM plans to offer its semi-automated SuperCruise system intended mainly for limited - access roads and highways in the 2017 Cadillac CTS for private customers, the arrangement with Lyft portends a future in which autonomous vehicles will be loaned out to customers from urban areas.

Advancements in vehicle technology, in particular autonomous and connected vehicles, have the potential to positively transform our transportation system.

There's widespread disagreement about how autonomous systems will work, how they will integrate into a mature transportation system that already embraces more than a billion nonautonomous vehicles, and even what the true benefits will be.

As we approach that cold, automated future, the last roads in the U.S. to be coordinated for autonomous driving comfortably inside your compact sport / utility vehicle's navigation system will be those like California Highway 58 between McKittrick and Santa Margarita: remote, twisty, and hard to map precisely.

Despite headlines and a zeitgeist reinforcing the notion that driverless cars are inevitable, there is no clear roadmap for how we're going to get from contemporary automobiles offering autonomous aids — adaptive cruise control, lane - following systems, and so on — to vehicles that require no human input other than providing a destination.

An autonomous vehicle like the Mercedes - Benz F 015 will get you to your destination thanks to a programmed route, an array of sensors, an ability to communicate with pedestrians and other vehicles with a system of external LED lights front and rear, and an incredibly powerful and fast - acting on - board computer.

With the first hydrogen - powered SUV, the All - New NEXO, Hyundai is taking the lead in fuel cell electric vehicles, connecting clean mobility with the latest autonomous driving capabilities and smart advanced driving assistance systems.